AWESOMECON

By now, pretty much most meme-aholics have heard the vocal isolation track of Van Halen’s “Running with the Devil” featuring the crazed wails, screams, whistles and OH YEAH’s of David Lee Roth.  The song was included on the seminal 1978 release of Van Halen’s self-titled debut. Due to the release date and the extreme rock qualities of the album, this clearly makes the album “Van Halen” Classic Rock.

Jump ahead to 1979, barely a year later, another great is born.  Black and white line graphics represent your ship as it blasts and drifts through monstrous rocks in the darkness of deep space.  Asteroids is considered by many to be one of the great games of the past arcade mania, a legend that still lives in our hearts today.  Truly a Classic game.

Due the close proximity of time, there is a good chance that many Asteroids players listend to “Running with the Devil” while blasting rocks into smaller and smaller bits, while difting, ever drifting.  Thanks to the boyz/girlz at shitbagz, you can now play Assteriodz, The Diamond Dave Edition featuring Van Halen.  A true classic paring, like fine wine and cheese.  If the wine is a Flash casual game and cheese is the over the top stylings of Diamond Dave.  Good times.

[via Ryan]